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Barack Obama, British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Control the Information, Gulf Coast, Macondo Well, New Orleans, Oil Spill

More lies, more dead dolphins…

It just keeps getting funnier, except it’s not… In this past week, it has been reported how, in the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, British Petroleum had demanded via e-mail that it’s own expert be kept quiet when he gave his opinion stating 82,000 barrels of  crude a day were coming from the Macondo Well. In fact, two days after ordering his silence, BP publicly announced their estimate that the … Continue reading More lies, more dead dolphins…

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Barack Obama, British Petroleum, Control the Information, Gulf Coast, Oil Spill

A lesson in spin…oil spills and states of unions

It really is this simple: At the height of British Petroleum’s catastraphuk…the scientists involved from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) were estimating at least 25,000 barrels per day were gushing from the well. But, the National Incident Command suggested they report the flow rate to be between 12,000-25,000 barrels per day. And a White House Communications person suggested they report the flow rate at 12,000-19,000 … Continue reading A lesson in spin…oil spills and states of unions

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